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Former Postmaster General Fred Odhiambo. PHOTO/ FILE

Former Postmaster General Fred Odhiambo. PHOTO/ FILE 

By CHURCHILL OTIENO
Posted  Monday, May 25  2009 at  18:05

The Government on Monday sent home Postmaster General Fred Odhiambo.

Senior officials at the Ministry of Information and Communications confirmed the decision to send home the postmaster, but there was no word yet on who is to replace him at the head of the Postal Corporation.

Mr Odhiambo confirmed to the Nation that he had been removed from the position.

"I'm baffled. We were still all waiting for the report but it seems the Minister [Samuel Poghisio] has chosen to act before it is released. I will talk to my lawyers before deciding next cause of action," he said.

The postal body has lately been thrown into a controversy over the management of its money transfer service, PostaPay which forced the Government to invite consultancy firm Deloitte Touche to investigate its dealings.

Mr Odhiambo has been sent home three months before his current contract was due to lapse.

Deloitte and Touche were contracted in October last year to investigate the PostaPay system and determine whether the corporation was getting value from the agreement with the American technical service firm, Afripayments Ltd.


Add a comment (5 comments so far)

  1. Submitted by wawerugithiri

    If this guy has a history of corruption, he can as well pack and go home!

    Posted  May 25, 2009 09:31 PM  
  2. Submitted by SJ502

    Send him to prison before the political godfathers have him appointed to another public institution as a consolation prize!

    Posted  May 25, 2009 08:15 PM  
  3. Submitted by licom

    This is nothing but politics, should ODM also wake up and begin to sack PNU supporters from their ministries? Bure Kabisa

    Posted  May 25, 2009 07:50 PM  
  4. Submitted by caseka58

    Okungu, Oneko and now Odhiambo what about Muhoho,Misoi(NCPB)and Kinyua (PS Finance), Ringera, Wako and Ali (Police Commissioner)and the rest that we know of. In the past one year they have been in the spotlight over inefficiency and massive scandals in their areas of jurisdiction,havent they? Let public service reforms be alround and not to seem to be targeting people from a certain community. I am not Luo but I am saying this purely on an objective perspective as a Kenyan.

    Posted  May 25, 2009 07:41 PM  
  5. Submitted by Kibutu Kiiru

    Grinning as he says; "do i say, it was my time to eat". The culture is entrenched in the core.

    Posted  May 25, 2009 06:50 PM